The Red Rippers: Over There ... and Over Here

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Over There ... and Over Here is a truly strange boogie rock record from
1983 by a Vietnam veteran who, dismayed at the pointlessness of the Vietnam
war and the public’s negative response to it, decided to make an album about
it. “Here you are and death is all around you,” sings the former fighter
pilot Edwin Bankston — the sole member of the Red Rippers, on Firefight.
Body Bag and Vietnam Blues (“he’s been down in Vietnam,
burning babies for his pay”) give further glimpses into everyday life and
death in the major conflict of the Cold War era. Who Remember